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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If your entire personality on this website is “everybody else is wrong and stupid and I alone am smart enough to have the secret knowledge” contrarianism, you don’t get to complain and call it a bubble when a lot of people disagree with you. It’s barely a step above trolling.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MAGA is running a human trafficking ring out of a black site in Lower Manhattan

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.

The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.

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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics

The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI and gambling companies are the 2020s equivalent of the Sackler family in the 2010s and the cigarette industry in the 1990s

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This makes Boutros and the DOJ look even worse than before, sure, but it doesn’t make Mecklenberg look any better. Everybody being in the same cesspool of unethical misconduct doesn’t make her any less unethical.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One overarching theme of the Roberts Court is that voting rights are simply not that important to the six MAGA justices. They don’t even bother to acknowledge harms to the franchise, let alone articulate a standard of scrutiny.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

LPC is a scam. It’s not historic preservation, it’s NYC’s HOA.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we don’t say cigarettes “go rogue” when they cause cancer

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The faction of the Brooklyn Democratic Party that’s spent months having an increasingly pathetic temper tantrum in an effort to steal an election they lost embarrasses themselves more each day

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

bibi reminding everyone of the gutter racism of andrew cuomo’s failed mayoral campaign and why Zohran is more popular than Bibi among American Jews

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Life comes at you fast

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cannot stress enough that beyond being an unreconstructed neo-confederate, Tommy Tuberville is one of the dumbest people to ever walk the halls of Congress, and it’s a very low bar.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You’re only English if your ancestry traces directly to one of the laborers who built the first phase of Stonehenge in 3100 BCE.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If this is the criteria they used it’s absolutely insane. In most of my 20s, I was on an insurance plan but went years without using (or needing) any medical care that involved insurance. I wasn’t committing fraud, I was just lucky! That’s the whole point of insurance.

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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It should not surprise anyone that when the country's highest federal court acts more like a MAGA superlegislature untethered to and unrestrained by the law, ideologically aligned lower courts will follow its lead.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of this, from @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is exactly the kind of speech and regime the UN was founded to avoid ever happening again Makes Colin Powell in front of Guernica look tame by comparison

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

13/ By the end of 2024, FBI agents had enough evidence to pursue a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers of both political parties. They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation. Then Trump returned to the White House.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if Jared Golden wants to be a maga collaborationist and Vichy Democrat, he can at least have the decency to keep it to his own state

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kalshi trying to brand itself as a “trading market” is so transparently shameless

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dolphins might be bad enough that the analytics tell other teams to rest their starters for the fourth quarter to avoid injuries

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The boat-strike murders and third-country removals are among the constant reminders of our nation's global lawlessness under the Trump administration.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The last time he promised something like this it became a tunnel with regular Tesla cars driven by humans at 30 miles per hour.

Elon Musk: Boring Company is working on a simple, precursor Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio (>200 mph).
Due to traffic congestion, that journey can currently take up to 2.5 hours. @BoringCompany can reduce that to a consistent <30 mins.
10:57 AM • 9/20/26 • 358K Views

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if the SEC really wants to punish LSU they'll force them to keep lane kiffin

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't like having to do this, but I have to. This is not what happened. What happened was that a handful of scholars tried to legitimate an ahistorical argument and were criticized because of it. They then spent a year engaging in abject sophistry and caricaturing their critics. They still lost.

Just after the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara earlier this year, a concerted social-media push cast a small group of originalist scholars as arch-villains for “normalizing” the view taken by three of the justices—namely, that the Constitution does not require a policy of universal birthright citizenship. For some, universal birthright citizenship is so sacrosanct that any disagreement or debate is unacceptable. The only reason the question was remotely in doubt was that originalists sold their methodology for partisan gain.

https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/ilan-wurmans-constitutional-conversation-c372b184-e6a1-4d42-a221-af34d205b234

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The “conclusion” is incredibly kafkaesque; the border search exception is an extra-constitutional judicial invention to the plain text of the Constitution.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Georgia's first Jewish senator points out that his Republican opponent is "surrounded at work and at home by neo-Nazis and white nationalists"

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It occurs to me that the FBI bestiality thing might just be that some DOGE dipshit ran an AI to get rid of any rule disqualifying people for sexual misconduct and now people who didn't even know about it at the time have to die on that hill

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's really not that irrational for voters to correctly assess that Trump is the singular reason that inflation remains above target levels and the Fed has been forced to raise interest rates. Had Trump done just about nothing, inflation would likely be around the Fed's target.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know it's been almost a year and Trump has done many bad things since then, but it shouldn't be memory-holed that Trump and his administration set up a human trafficking apparatus to send people to a foreign concentration camp run by a right-wing dictator who made a deal with MS-13 to take power.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If anything, that couch victimized JD Vance

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A guy who had a years-long meltdown over being the subject of a lawfully issued and executed search warrant is totally happy with a weaponized, suspicion-less government mass surveillance system targeting OTHER people.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shameless coup averted. This should end the political careers of everyone involved in the defeated faction's attempt to override the results of Brooklyn's Democratic Party elections.

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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is absolutely horrendous, Bernie should apologize and back away from this

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